Court and town visitors noted in county records
A stream of local residents and visitors appear in the county seat today. Names include Harry Sterner Dixonville W A Vangilder Robinson Katherine McGuines Johnstown and many more from Indiana Hillsdale Punxsutawney Plumville Dilltown Cramer East Wheatfield Montgomery and State College. Several counts of court business and jury duty are listed along with personal visits and meetings.
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Harry Sterner
Dixonville
W. A. Vangilder
Robinson
Katherine McGuines
Johnstown
Margaret George
Germantown Hospital
G. Heilman
Hillsdale
Indiana
John D. Adamson
Home
Lawrence Bowser
Punxsutawney
Elizabeth Cochran
Plumville
Howard Bowser
Dilltown
Clarence Carr
Walier
Charles Stiles
Cramer
Court House
Squire J. Irwin Naugle
East Wheatfield Township
H. M. Welsh
du Bois
Wal J. Lutz
William Wise
County Commissioners
Stanley Books
Middleton
N. Y
Ford Motor Company
Middletown
Isaac Smith
Montgomery Township
F. P. Everett
Harry Donahue
P. G. Stephens
State College
Clyde Coleman
Prince of Wales rushes to bedside of King George
The Prince’s 6000 mile dash from East Africa is expected to end at Victoria Station around 10 am tomorrow with a royal car convoy to Buckingham Palace. He should arrive in Dover at 8:30 am and then travel 75 miles by train to London. Premier Baldwin and officials are expected to meet him. Also noted is a new one passenger car in New York, narrower than a motorcycle, popular for European deliveries.
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London
Prince of Wales
George
Victoria Station
Buckingham Palace
Duke of York
Baldwin
Dover
New York
Europe
Manhattan
In Memoriam Isreal Learn Died December 8 1927
In memory of Isreal Learn who died December 8 1927. Dear husband fifty nine years we lived together and it was hard to part. I know you are happy and will meet in Heaven to join the angels at the Throne. Sadly missed by wife and family Mrs Amelia Learn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Isreal Learn
Amelia Learn
Kudzinowski Confesses To Another Child’s Murder
Jersey City police report Peter Kudzinowski, awaiting trial for the murder of seven year old Joseph Storelli, confessed to killing five year old Julia Mladziankowska near Lake Hopatcong last August. He previously admitted killing Larry Quinn in Scranton, Pa, and claimed to have dismembered the girl’s body before throwing it from a moving train. The confession followed a confrontation with his mother Mrs Veronica Kudzinowski who denied shielding him.
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Jersey City
N.J
Dee. Li
INS
Peter Kudzinowski
Joseph Storelli
Here
Toray
Julia Mladzianowska
Lake Hopatcong
N. J
Kudzinowski
Detroit
Larry Quinn
Kadazinowski
Scranton
Delaware Water Gap
Veronica Kudzinowstki
Storelli
Community leader Will Address civic progress and audience
Will addresses concerns about development and civic progress in his community, holding his audience with engaged discussion and focus on local improvements. The speech centers on housing, public services, and collaborative approaches to growth.
Dr F B Short and Penney Foundation Trusted Philanthropy
Dr F B Short serves as vice president of the J C Penney Foundation, an organization dedicated to philanthropic work. Its recent achievement includes building a hundred homes in Provida for retired ministers lacking suitable housing. Short has pursued public service through the Penney Company for fifteen years and focuses on health, happiness, and economic progress in smaller U S towns and cities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Br. Short
J. C. Penney Foundation
Provida
Dr. Short
Penney Company
United States
Poultry and Farm Show Opens at Armory With Free Entry for Children
Directors of the Indiana County Poultry Association announce free admission for all school children under fourteen when accompanied by a parent. Adults pay 25 cents and children 10 cents. The show opens at noon and runs Thursday through Friday at the Armory, featuring exhibitors from Indiana and nearby towns.
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Indiana County Poultry Association
Armory
Five Taken In Sagamore Raids
Five prisoners remained in Armstrong county jail after a Sagamore raid Saturday night. Federal agents with local constables seized three 15 gallon stills, mash, wine, beer, and moonshine from several homes. Suspects Nick Cherence August Lipey Lewis Melvin I L Ferguson and Sam Popitava were jailed with Paul Zasko to report Wednesday. The group faced hearings later in the week and pleadings of guilty anticipated.
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Kittanning
Armstrong County
Sagamore
Justice of the Peace Wray
Boltz
Neubrook
Nick Cherence
August Lipey
Lewis Melvin
Sam Popitava
Paul Zasko
Cherence
Lipey
Melvin
Ferguson
Poultry Show Displays Many Breeds in Indiana County Event
Framed by a two day exhibition in Indiana County, the show features breeds Kiwi and Turkins, along with standard birds such as Leghorns Wyandottes Plymouth Rocks Rhode Island Reds and Jersey Giants. The poultry industry here earns about a million dollars yearly and has nearly doubled in six years. Children under fourteen enter free with a parent.
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Wyandottes
Plymouth Rocks
Rhode Island Reds
Minores
Jersey Giants
Orpingtons
Indiana County
Rotary and Kiwanis Club Talk in Indiana Hotel
Rotary speaker discussed following the school profession after Michigan and sharing views on Indiana hospitality and relocation experiences. Kiwanis guest Rev Ralph Coonradt spoke on The Awakening of China drawing comparisons between modern China and historic Ching, praised for clarity and insight.
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Kiwanis
Ralph Coonradt
China
Kiwanis Club
Indiana Hotel
Coonradl
Rapid Spread Across Midwest Schools and Colleges
Contingent report from Sewanee to Culver Military Academy notes widespread illness as outbreaks hit University of Missouri, Waukesha, Iowa City, and other campuses. Superintendent G. baiting cites 300 pupils out of 10 percent enrollment laid up with the disease while Iowa City reports over 1000 cases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wanee
Sewanee
Youths locate body with foul play suspected
From the position of the body it would appear that the man had met with foul play, but there were no evidences on the skull of any blows. Whether the body might have been moved to the spot where the skeleton was found, or whether the man wandered off the highway and perished from exposure, is a matter of conjecture.
McFeaters Civil War Veteran Dies at Armagh
John H Wachob dies at 63 in Johnstown. Obituaries note McFeaters death from paralysis in 1927 and Wachob’s career as a teacher and salesman. Survived by widow Ella Duncan Wachob, children Kyle Helen Rachel, grandson William Kyle, and brother Mark. Interment in Armagh cemetery. services tomorrow at 2.
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Pagee
Mr McFeaters
Armagh
Anna Duncan
Mr. McFeaters
Warren
Garfield
Latrobe
Leon
Moxham
Maria
J. H. Harriger
Ducy
Samuel Sarri
McFeaters
Emory Fisher Post
Elizabeth McFeaters
Charles
A. McFeaters
Emma Fox
Seward
Warren McFeaters
John H. Wachob
Johnstown
John Hamilton Wachob
Paliser Street
Southmont
Brushvalley
Indiana County
Kernville
Ella (Duncan) Wachob
Kyle, Wachob
Pittsburgh
Helen Wachob
Bridgeport
Wall Streeters Get Big Bonuses
Wall Street bonuses are expected to set a record this Christmas with an estimated distribution near 75 million dollars, about 25 million more than last year. Brokers and banks anticipate payouts ranging from 10 to 100 percent of annual salaries as employees work long hours to manage the brisk trading season.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Wee
Wall Street
Santa's Ship of Health Sails On
Old Christmas Seals, once sold for a penny, now fetch up to 10 dollars, stamp authorities note. The twenty-second year of sale features thirty-two seal types with multiple styles in several years, including 1907 and 1913 issues. The 1913 red and green design with poinsettias stands out, while other varieties range from 3 to 7.50 dollars.
Christmas Seals Through Pennsylvania History
The piece notes that the Red Cross first printed Christmas Seals in 1919 and marks the last year they used the emblem. Earlier, Red Cross and National Tuberculosis Association sold seals together, but now only the National Tuberculosis Association issues them. Few Pennsylvania collections include seals from every year, and Brumbaugh, former governor and 1928 sale chairman, lauds the seals as a sunshine-like force for good.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tuberculosis Societies
Red Cross
National Tuberculosis Association
Pennsylvania
Brumbaugh
Youth Confesses to Teacher Murder in Sheridan
Sheridan Michigan December 11 15 James Deakin a 16 year old son of the janitor at the Sheridan school confessed today to killing Flossice Carter a 27 year old teacher. He said he planned the act for years and carried it out after luring her in a car. He described strangling her striking with a stone and fleeing on foot before disposing of the weapon in a lake.
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Sheridan, Mich
James Deakin
Sheridan School
Flossice Carter
Deakin
S Lake
Coolest Man To Get Death Sentence
Alvarez Miguel a 23 year old Cuban baseball player and son of a wealthy Cuban citizen was sentenced to the electric chair by Judge R P Hicks in Schuylkill county for the murder of his sweetheart Louise Jacks 20 nine months earlier He reportedly said I am luckier than Hickman he did not get any Christmas turkey and asked officials to visit him in the hot chair at Rockview Miguel killed Miss Jacks in jealousy.
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Pottsville
Senuylkill County
Alvarez Miguel
R. P. Hicks
Louise Jacks
Miguel
Hickman
Rockview
Miss‘Jacks
Fisher advances 1929 message plan in Harrisburg
In Harrisburg on December 11, Governor John Fisher said he will remain at the Executive Mansion and close doors to delegations to focus on his 1929 Legislature message. He plans to print the message and avoid personally delivering it, while also preparing the budget for printers during the holidays. The note ends with a columnist mentioning unsigned letters and a digression about a Pittsburgh livestock market.
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Harrisburg
John
Fisher
Secursion
Coal Miners Join College Industrial Training Project
Pennsylvania State College launches a major industrial training program in the anthracite coal district. About 500 miners attend night classes in Pottsville, Mahanoy City, and Mount Carmel, studying mining from formation to laws. Forty classes run over six months for miners and foremen, organized by Penn State officials and the Philadelphia and Reading Coal Company.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Engineering Extension Department
School of Mines
Pennsylvania State College
Nlit
Pottsville
Mahanoy City
Mount Carmel
Philadelphia and
Reading Coal Company
J. R. Milligan
Philadelphia and Reading Coal Company
Edward Keller
Don Wyman
G. F. Fisher
College Extension Department
Edward Staidle
School of Mines and Metallurgy
Stock market rally lifts motor oils as traders buy
New York stocks rose in early trading as motor shares led gains. Packard Motors jumped to 14.4 percent, Chrysler rose about five percent, and General Motors Studebaker Yellow Truck Briggs Manufacturing and Hupp advanced. Oil issues like Standard Oil and Atlantic Refining gained, with iron and steel notes improving on bigger loadings and earnings expectations.
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New York
Big Bears
Bulls
Packard Motors
Chrysler
General Motors
Studebaker
Yellow Truck
Briggs Manufacturing
Hupp
Standard Oils
Atlantic Refining
Standard of New York
Iron and Steel
Treasuries
Can Money
Spree Through New York City and Island Adventures
A day described in New York Today includes an icy pool plunge, a flight over New York Harbor from Mitchell Field, and tea with artists and writers discussing atmosphere. The narrator risks a canoe voyage on the upper Hudson, gets drenched, skirts Chinatown and police, buys a petrified cat’s eye ring for a Christmas gift, and ends with a winter visit to a Yiddish theatre and a dreary Coney Island before returning to Manhattan by subway.
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New York
Mitchell Field
Long Island
New York Harbor
Chinatown
Broadway
Coney Island
Manhattan
Subway
Seven jailed men foiled jail delivery in Waynesburg
In Waynesburg Pennsylvania authorities thwarted an attempted jail break by seven prisoners. Sheriff Arno McClelland surprised the men at work with heated saws, intercepted and recaptured them as they tried to cut bars from a window. The inmates named include Jesse Tennant John Jwedson Vincenso Brunelli Anthony Shimkus Steve Miles William Hardesty and Harry Hennesy awaiting transfer to Allegheny County Workhouse.
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Waynesburg
Arno
McClelland
We O Rgen
Jesse Tennant
John Jwedson
Point Marion
Vincenso Brunelli
Bobtown
Anthony Shimkus
Perry Township
Steve Miles
Jefferson
Allegheny County
William Hardesty
Harry Hennesy
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Addie Worth
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Armstrong Co
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Rotary Club
University of Michigan
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John Netff
Wall
Santa
Pittsburgh Livestock Market
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Rep Iron and Steel
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